"The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book."

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press

Ford Madox Ford

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“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014
“In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.”
“I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.”

Source : Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.
“When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.”
“I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.”
“It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.”
“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.”

Source : "Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary". Book by Colleen Messina, 2002.

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